Toddler Squeezes Through The White House Fence

[marble falls]

8. Pahlenty!!!! At eight I had stiches on my forehead from Mr Brown backing over me with his car ...

... Two weeks later I cut my hand on a glass jar that broke in my hand and took a four hour surgery to re-connect the tendon to my thumb.

I was riding Jimmy Pepke's bike when Mr Brown hit me and in Jimmie's backyard when I cut my hand and discovered how far a heart can pump blood (about 10ft). I was banned from the Pepke property until Mrs Pepke thought she was safe from being sued.

At twelve I bow-broke my wrist at Tim McClusky's house jumping off a swing just goofing around.

Still have most of the scars - from putting my head through my grandparent's coffee table, pulling a broken pickle crock off a counter onto my head, fell off a Royal Castle burger stool spinning on it, got my scalp cut doing somersaults with a cousin in the backseat of a fifties car that had a hand-strap across the front seat back when I grazed a screw on the end trim piece, my sister tossed a book at me and the plastic binding putting cut me across the scar from getting under Mr Brown's car. One more I just can't remember. And I did have stitches on my knee after exploring a closed construction site and crawling over a set of rollers at four when we lived in Euclid.

There's more but I'd need to write the book, seriously.

I broke my knee twice one summer in my thirties. I was a sucker for a dare. A motor cycle and just goofing around with my youngest brother who was a rough neck like me.